A lot of buffs,nerfs and gameplay changes along with new events. We finally have the replay and spectate feature to look forward to!
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\n\n(1) Leap Strike
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\n- Range: 6 → 6.5
\n- Cooldown: 9/8/7/6s → 7.5/7/6.5/6s
\n- Damage: 55/110/165/220 → 60/115/170/225
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Again a champion I enjoy playing but saw no real place in the meta. Jax struggled a lot against ranged matchups in lane more than he should. With a stronger Leap strike, this is finally being addressed.
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\n\n(2) Void Seeker
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\n- Correctly applies Caustic Wounds’ damage to the target hit
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The bug fix will make her very slightly stronger but this does not change anything about her kit or playstyle.
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(Ult) Dragon’s Rage
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\n- Knockback range: 7.5 → 6.75
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This makes it so he can reach the kicked target with his sonic wave. Although they say it’s a light nerf, I feel like it’s a small buff, especially for solo queue Lee Sins. But it does make it slightly easier to escape once hit by his ult.
\nThis doesn’t change Lee Sin’s place in the meta, he is still an S tier jungler.
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\n\n(1) Rapid Fire
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\n- Attack speed: 30/50/70/90% → 50/70/90/110%
\n- Duration: 5s → 7s
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\n\n(2) Rocket Jump
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\n- Base damage: 60/130/200/270 → 85/155/225/295
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\n\n(2) Explosive Charge
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\n- Passive base damage: 40/70/100/130 → 55/85/115/145
\n- Active base damage: 60/70/80/90 → 65/80/95/110
\n- AD ratio: 50/70/90/110% Bonus AD → 55/90/125/160% Bonus AD
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There was no controversy in the fact that Tristana was heavily underperforming. Even her late game strength was nowhere near what was expected of a scaling champ. I love Tristana’s champion design, but the lack of the damage made it so I couldn’t play her a lot. I am glad all that is fixed now. A lot of juicy damage buffs all across the board!
\nI am sure these changes will easily make her an S tier mm or atleast a high A tier.
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\n\n(NEW) Redemption heal effect is reduced by 50% if the target has been affected by another Redemption in the last 20 seconds
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It was possible to stack multiple redeems on heroes and use it all in a teamfight without seeing any reduced effects in healing. To make sure that only one redeem is used per fight, these changes were made
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\n\nLocket shield effect is reduced by 50% if the target has been affected by another Locket in the last 20 seconds
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Similar to stacking or redeeming enchant, the shield could also stack, and more than one champion could equip it. This makes sure only one champion builds this item per team.
\nAlthough you can still build redeeming enchant and locket enchant on two different heores, they stack together really well with no consequence.
\nNew Features
\nThis is amazing news for all content creators and players alike! For players, this allows them to see what went wrong, or what mistakes they did during a gameplay. For content creators, doesn’t matter if you forgot to turn on the record button during a match! Just go to your match history, tap the replay button and you can record your clips.
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If you are a beginner use this to spectate your high-rank friends. Or if you are waiting in lobby for your friends to finish their match, you can just choose to spectate them instead of getting bored.
\nThings to note
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The in-game chat settings have been updated. All / Team / Off is now All / Team / Party. The new Party setting allows for premade party chat while hiding chat from other team members.
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Added an indicator around summoner spell buttons showing exactly how long spell casts like Barrier and Ghost will be active.
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Hunter’s Duty effect timer is visible, which let’s players know how they get reduced gold from min ionss. Riot’s way of telling the junglers to stay in the jungle and not leach lane farm.
\n\n\nWhen champions with Hand of Baron buff leave minion vicinity, buff linger duration reduced from 10 → 5 seconds
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This is a nerf to the Baron in a way. So far if you were ahead, any high mobility could just buff all the minions throughout the map and then join team fight with zero consequence, as the buffed minions would keep pushing. Now the minions will only stay buffed if you are near them. As soon as you leave the lane the buff will disappear, strengthening the split push strategy more than before.
\n\n\nRift Scuttlers now spawn similarly to League PC. At the start of the game, two Rift Scuttlers spawn (one on each side of the map), then one Scuttler on either side is randomly spawned thereafter.
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Riot has also teased a Project skin line soon to come in the upcoming months, but no dates are yet confirmed.
\nHere are the Patch Notes from the Gaming Galaxy Thrower himself. Many thanks to Shurkou for letting us embed his video on here.
\nThe Lunar event has me hyped! Really excited for the new champions as well. About the buffs and nerfs I am just glad that the reig of Kennen is finally over and that people can stop flaming Tristana picks.
\nGoodluck on the Rift, friend!
\nHave anything you would like to add? Let us know what you think about these changes!
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